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| Strange Fruits | ||||
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| Studio album by Chara | ||||
| Released | March 17, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998–1999 | |||
| Genre | Trip hop, downtempo, alternative pop | |||
| Length | 46:25 | |||
| Label | Sony Music Japan | |||
| Producer | Chara | |||
| Chara chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Strange Fruits | ||||
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Strange Fruits(ストレンジ・フルーツSutorenji Furūtsu) is the seventh studio album by Chara, which was released on March 17, 1999. [1] It debuted at #3 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted in the top 200 for 9 weeks. [2]
Miwa Watabiki, better known by her stage name Chara, is a Japanese singer, actress and video jockey. She debuted in 1991 with the single Heaven. She is most well known for her song "Swallowtail Butterfly ", the theme song for the 1996 Shunji Iwai film Swallowtail Butterfly, her 1997 hit single "Yasashii Kimochi", and her collaboration with Judy and Mary vocalist Yuki, "Ai no Hi Mittsu Orange". Chara later formed a band with Yuki, called Mean Machine.
Oricon Inc., established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as Original Confidence Inc., which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter’s Oricon record charts in April 2002.
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Chara self-produced this album. [3] Three singles prior to this album's release: "Duca", "Hikari to Watashi" and "70% (Yūgure no Uta)". "Duca" and "Hikari to Watashi" were both released in 1998, while "70% (Yūgure no Uta)" was released a month before the album's release. "Hikari to Watashi" was used as the commercial song for Warner-Lambert Calorio diet pills in 1998. An album track, Atashi wa Koko yo(あたしはここよI'm Here), was used in Snow Brand Liebender ice-cream commercials.
''70% '' is a song by Japanese singer Chara. It was released as the third single from her album Strange Fruits on February 17, 1999. It debuted at #36 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted for three weeks.
Pfizer Inc. is an American pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in New York City, with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut. It is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its shares have been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 2004. Pfizer ranked No. 57 on the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
Snow Brand Milk Products Co., Ltd. is one of the largest dairy companies in Japan.
